Would you use AppleScript?

[GnuVince]

I dunno, I checked it and it seemed like a mix of COBOL and VB... but when I get my iBook, I'll want to use Cocoa! Is there good Cocoa support for Python? How about Ruby? Any Lisps or Schemes?

[sans-hubris]

It's not that bad, actually. It's actually a good way of quickly writing scripts for a Mac. Although, I've only had a few very brief experiences with it.

[inkedmn]

python for mac:

http://www.python.org/download/download_mac.html

and there are several modules in the python distribution that are specifically for mac...

[Sonarman]

For python on Mac OS X, i recommend installing it with Fink. Fink rules! It's a port of the Debian package manager (dpkg) to OS X, including our good friend apt, and also a program for downloading and building an app from source. Check it out at fink.sourceforge.net Also, Debian GNU/Linux itself is pretty fun on a mac too :D Anyway, to install Python with fink, just run:

apt-get install python

or if you want to build it from source:

fink install python

[DrPizza]

No.

I find it annoyingly verbose (the verbosity gets in the way of seeing what a script is doing).